You’ve probably seen advertising for Dotcomology, it’s had a medium to high internet profile over the last few years, and features a large picture of its smiling founder Stone Evans on the front page as a dishwasher who made good. Dotcomology gives you a free website with 5 streams of internet income built in, and 325 pages of instructional text.

The main teaching segment is a comprehensive 325 page text in PDF format titled Dotcomology, and also a planned 30 day, day by day, step by step, method of creating an income.

The methods of creating income derive from two major directions; bringing new members who sign up to the Dotcomology 30 day program, and making sales of affiliate products and services.

The 30 day course, plus Dotcomology, are a thorough overview of internet home business methods. You don’t have to be internet experienced to understand it, but some prior understanding will help.

The 30 day program guides you through various steps as you add essential components to your free website. These add ons are items such as auto responders, free traffic sources, places where one can purchase leads and traffic, a co op where one purchases rotating advertising on nation wide web sites, etcetera. Particular days are set up to help you join each add on, eg day 7 – time to attach an autoresponder to your website.

The 30 day program is promoted as ‘cost free’ and a ‘formula to success’, and Stone puts plenty of emphasis on ‘it’s free…’ as a way to keep one interested. It’s not entirely true though. What you get instead is 15 day or 30 day trial periods for these add ons that become regular monthly billings, some of which are unexpectedly costly. They're also not easy to cancel.

The passive income aspect derives from bringing new members who buy Dortcomology. As new members sign on, and as they proceed through the 30 day course they sign up/buy for each ‘free add on’, you will receive a percentage of their purchases. In turn as they bring on new members you also receive a percentage of their expenditures, thus in multi level marketing fashion, these new people become your personnal downline.

Other items of the formula that are taught during the 30 days are article marketing, traffic forums, forums and blogs. All are explored as ways of getting free or organic traffic flowing to your website.

One is also encouraged to set a regular budget and purchase leads and visitors from the add ons companies. It is explained that if you buy 100 leads then a small number will sign up and become customers. You then expand your advertising for leads with the extra income these newbies bring, who then bring you a larger number of sign ups, and on and on it goes.

Conclusion
The trouble is that as a formula for success it flat doesn’t work as advertised, and there seems to be no effort to bring the whole program up to date with current market conditions where potential customers are perhaps thinner on the ground than they may have been when Dotcomology was developed.

For
If you like MLM companies, then you'll feel right at home.

The internet home business overview is well presented, and Dotcomolgy is supported by a dedicated forum at Warrior Forum dot com, where other members work with each other and help newbies along the path.

The add on companies can be a field of learning and marketing in their own right, and as such Dotcomology has some depth to it.

If you’re wanting a strong overview offering internet experience but creating an income quickly is not a need, then Dotcomology will deliver.

Against
The whole program has a corporate MLM feel to it, and if that’s something that you’re not comfortable with then it will not work to your advantage. If you don’t like MLM marketing, forget Dotcomology.

I did not like the creeping realization that free did not mean free. I felt conned into joining expensive internet programs I would not have joined otherwise. I really did not like that some of these programs are not easy to cancel. As one proceeds through the 30 days program and is encouraged to join add on after add on, there is nothing to let you know you don’t have to do these steps. Many people, myself included, discover after the fact that some of these add ons don’t work as advertised, and that there are free alternatives.

Overall, applying the program and creating traffic is labor intensive, and as such is a long way from the 5 streams of passive income being promoted. It also has the veneer and trappings of a certain in/famous herbal company, which is fine if that’s your kind of thing, not fine if you left that behind decades ago.

I have a sneaking feeling brought on by the numerous other stretched truths that incomes sufficient to replace ones day job are a not so common as the advertising would have you believe.

Cash Machine teaches affiliate marketing. This means that you’re selling someone else’s product in return for a commission. This is a respected and widely used internet business model. In affiliate marketing, you make the introduction, connecting a buyer to the seller. As soon as that relationship is “formalized” through an actual sale, you get paid. The financial portion of the transaction is handled by companies online who specialize in secure transactions. As the funds change hands your fee is deducted and forwarded automatically. Nothing could be easier.

Ewen Chia, the author, is well known internet entrepreneur who is often a guest speaker at internet business conferences. His online businesses are very successful, and its obvious from his material that everything he teaches comes from lessons learned in the field.

On the welcome page of Newby Cash Machine there are 4 download buttons. 

The first ‘download button’ provides tools for promoting Ewen Chia’s other products. With the internet wide reputation of his products, these are a good place to start affiliate marketing yourself.

The second ‘download button’ is for the ‘Newby Cash Machine’ itself. This is a 140 page PDF document you can save to the computer or print out to read later.

You are also offered several free items. They are all good, grab them all.

The third button is called ‘Free traffic’. A nice bonus on offer is the chance to send him your testimonial about Newby Cash Machine. If it’s a winning item he’ll post it on his main sales page. This gets a wide readership, and will bring a string of traffic to your blog or website.

The fourth button is access to a service providing pre written review articles, a very handy service when you’re building websites and promoting products. If writing is not a strong point or if you’re just wanting to be more efficient, it could be a blessing. Do I recommend it?... I recommend reading through Newby Cash Machine first, develop a feel for what direction you might go in and consider it an important tool you can use later.

Inside Newby Cash Machine
the first 28 pages are an introduction to the internet and how you can develop your role as a middleman, helping promote information products.

The introduction covers;
-What Internet Business Is All About.
-How Do People Really Make Money.
-The Internet Is Primarily About...
-Your Value To The Marketplace.
-Your Role As A “Middle Person”.
-The Easiest And Most Immediate Way To Start…
-How Affiliate Marketing Works.

After this outline we get to a description of the actual Cash Machine system itself. This is a 3 page outline, a good overview of how it will work, how the system is built and how it makes sales.

It then gets into how to build the Cash Machine with 10 detailed steps outlining major subjects over 100 plus pages.

Each of these 10 items are cornerstone skills of all internet marketing, and whether you’re internet savvy or not, they're explained thoroughly and clearly.

 1 – Finding a profitable market.
2 – Finding profitable products in your market.
3 – Registering your own domain name.
4 – Setting up your own auto responder.
5 – Setting up follow up emails.
6 – Setting up after market emails.
7 – Creating your own optin page.
8 – Driving traffic to your site.
9 – Additional programs for your auto responder.
10 – Build a good relationship with your list of customers.

Where you need to fill out information online it is all demonstrated in ‘screen shots’ so that you can follow what needs to be done. This removes the chances of making errors or misunderstanding the purpose of each step.

Conclusion
Newby Cash Machine has uncomplicated and straightforward explanations, using highlights, diagrams and copied web pages so you can see precisely what to do. It’s straightforward to understand and the only requirement is to follow the advice, step by step.

I learned several new pointers about setting up autoresponders, and also new tricks about getting getting traffic to a website.

It’s safe to say that no matter what ones experience or background, the Cash Machine framework could be easily applied and expanded to any business you decide.

For
This product is undoubtedly one of the best products on the internet for introducing beginners, and even those with some experience, to a formula for making an internet income.

- Top marks for sincerity and understanding a newbies perspective.
- Top marks for clarity of explanations.
- Top marks for thoroughness in covering the steps necessary to make an income.
- Top marks for extra tools, and links to helpful websites scattered throughout.
- Top marks for encouragement.

 Against
Hmmm, it is hard to find faults in this program, certainly there’s nothing large that stands out.
The package of tools offered when you first open the download area might be presented too soon, before one knows enough to understand what might help his or her endeavors. And…I felt that the wrap up of the teaching was a bit abrupt and short, but to be honest everything one needs is in the preceding information.

Overall
After inspecting lots of wealth making programs here at Wealth Matrix, many with subtle omissions, misleading coaching and some with downright dishonest intentions, I found this refreshingly thorough, and considerate of a newbies point of view.  If you’re wanting to make a good first step in creating an internet income, then there’s no doubt this is the right program. I rated Newby’s Cash Machine 9/10.

Affiliates can make serious incomes referring sales to their merchants. Fortunes can be made helping to sell other people's products.  This is unlike a regular job where you have a fixed salary our hourly wage. If you were to refer $100,000 in sales as an affiliate on one product, and if your commission is 50%, then you get $50,000. It doesn't matter how long it took you to do it…or even whether you do it month after month…You control your own financial destiny all the way. Who wouldn't want a piece of that action?

Nine gold stars.

********* 9/10
I switched from being a reviewer to a user.

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It came out in Aug 2008, an important date as it was designed after Google instituted the first  infamous ‘Google slap’, and it gives you a very comprehensive set of explanations and tools to work with.

Commission Blueprint’s stated purpose is to provide a proven formula to successfully market Clickbank products with Google ads, how to pick the right ones and then quickly try them out in the most cost/time effective way.

The big step in taking a modest income and making it into a large income is to focus on  the profitable product and scale up the marketing campaign.

Commission Blueprint focuses on Clickbank but along the way you will learn much more about internet marketing.

On opening the Commission Blueprint welcome page where the downloads are accessed, there are several bonus items, and the main training consists of 14 videos. These can also be easily downloaded as PDF files for reading.

The video’s are about 40 minutes each and consist of a speaker guiding you through important points, emphasizing them with text and screen shots of relevant website material.

The 14 trainings are titled;

1 – Introduction and welcome.

2 – How to best use the training.

3 – How to choose the best Clickbank products.

4 – Keyword research.

5 – How to choose a domain name and hosting.

6 – Create a good story and landing page, and avoiding the Google slap.

7 – Setting up your website and landing pages.

8 – Setting up your Adwords campaign.

9 – Managing campaigns during the testing phase.

10 – How to choose a winner.

11 – How to scale up your campaign to increase income.

12 – How to fix problems that might arise.

13 – Cash flow and business management.

14 – Conclusion and wrapping up.

 Once a good product has been chosen, the rest of Commission Blueprint is dedicated to selling it. Insights into the psychology of marketing are explored, and you are led through the nuances of how and why different ads work, in other words, the best way to attract a customer and close a sale.

Conclusion
Commission Blueprint is a detailed, comprehensive  product that has sold well and also undoubtedly helped others make good money selling their own products, but it’s not perfect though, and there are several points against someone trying this early on in learning internet sales.

For

1 - The sheer volume of information provided.

2 – The material goes into great detail and explores some of the trickier aspects of marketing in depth.

3 – Authenticity, the presenter is clearly using his information on a daily basis himself, and has  created a number of high dollar income streams in his own internet business.

4 – I liked having the choice of PDF format for reading the material, and having the option of watching training videos where screen shots could be presented as examples. It meant I could take it with me to study at leisure, or sit at the desk with a pen and paper to take notes.

5 – Many links to useful websites are freely provided, as well as unique research tools designed by Commission Blueprint you can’t get anywhere else.

 Overall, the experience and confidence of the presenter give plenty of confidence in the processes.

 Against
1 – The sheer volume of information provided.  It is a lot to digest for someone not well versed in internet verbige, or websites. Years of experience in marketing are compressed into a few videos and it can be tough to plow through.

 2 – Google Ads are an advertising medium that requires strict discipline and close attention. Budgets can easily run away on high cost per click ads, generating expensive traffic but few sales.

 3 – There is however, a big mark against this program for anyone new to making an income on the internet.

All ads, Commission Blueprint and everyone else, have to be market tested to see what response they generate. Commission Blueprint uses google Adsense for traffic, and this involves paying google for the clicks that are generated by prospective customers.

The presenter explains that out of ten products chosen from Clickbank, just two or three are going to sell well.

In addition, once chosen, the design of the ads also has to be market tested, and these too will only produce good results in two or three out of ten ads.

So, ten or more affiliate programs have to be tested, 10 or more keywords have to be tested and ten or more ads have to be tested.

In order to do each market test well, to average out responses and get a proper overview of how they will sell on a big scale, it’s no good spending ten dollars per test, and checking the response of just 50 people.

The presenter, who until this point in his video is sailing along at full steam, pauses and somewhat sheepishly admits that in order for each test to be meaningful, that spending US$500 per test ‘might be about right, for a small operator’.

 Now I don’t know about you, but if I spent just $47 hard earned dollars buying this program you probably don’t have ten or twenty thousand dollars around to blaze through for testing ads or products. There’s even no guarantee that ten tests will produce 2 good results. You might test ten items and have to test ten more, and more, before it reveals a good product and advert that will sell well.

 The verdict? Top marks for quality and quantity of information, and proving that high incomes are very possible, but it is a program with some unavoidable complexities. Combined with the need of large cash reserves it’s not for those starting out, or the faint hearted.

Do I use it? No, not yet, its on the one day I’ll get round to it shelf.